Largest mammalian genome size: 8.40pg, Tympanoctomys barrerae, Red viscacha rat.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Much Junk in the Genome... and the Press - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Animal and human motifs abound, especially snakes, foxes, felines, eagles and the viscacha a large rodent, cousin to the chinchilla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

The red viscacha rat (Tympanoctomys barrerae) and the pichiciego (Chlamyphorus truncatus) are mammals endemic to this biome; they are also listed as vulnerable according to IUCN categories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Argentine Monte] Reference

The lady reader will be shocked to learn that the head of the viscacha family, probably copying a bad example from the ostrich, his neighbor, is also very unamiable with his "better half," and inhabits bachelor's quarters, which he keeps all to himself, away from his family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference

Several animal species are regarded as being of special value because they are either endemic, nationally threatened or culturally valuable, including Andean condor Vultur gryphus, chestnut canastero Thripophaga steinbachi, sandy gallito Teledroma fuscus, puma Felis concolor, guanaco Lama guanicoe, mara Dolychotus patagonum and viscacha Lagidium viscacia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ischigualasto-Talampaya, Argentina] Reference

The fur of the viscacha is not so pretty, being of a brownish and white mixture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

This little guy is a viscacha, a critter that looks like a cross between a mouse and a rabbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The EDM SuperBlog] Reference

The chinchilla, and its near relative the viscacha, are two little animals of the rodent, or grass-eating kind, that inhabit the very highest mountains of Peru and Chili.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

The chinchilla is a much more beautiful creature than the viscacha, and is a better-known animal, its soft and beautifully-marbled fur being an article of fashionable wear in the cities of Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference

With regard to the viscacha it is very interesting to note that these highly-sociable little animals not only live peaceably together in each village, but that whole villages visit each other at nights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution] Reference

When the farmer destroys a viscacha-burrow, and buries the inhabitants under a heap of earth, other viscachas -- we are told by Hudson -- "come from a distance to dig out those that are buried alive" (l.c., p. 311).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution] Reference

If you the sleeplessly cartwheel as it is, you viscacha, in my retinal, an numbfish to miscreant the observingly sheldrake foraminifera steinbeck. tensity ellipsoidal, disobediently kubrick, from cold aegilops ballroom to hoist, to streptokinase, to dextrality with jabberwocky fibrin and guardant cliquishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

KING: How about viscacha?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005] Reference

CORWIN: This is a viscacha.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005] Reference

KING: This is a viscacha, OK.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005] Reference

What is really cool about this viscacha.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005] Reference

(Quechua) (Nahuatl) cherimoya, cherimoyo, sapucaia, sapucaja, cherimoja (Nahuatl) sapucaya (Tupí) guaiacum, guajacum, vizcacha, viscacha, viscache guayacan (Taino) (Quechua) hicatee, hicotee, hicotea (Taino).    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference